Improvement in hand-planters



S. S. STULTS.

Hand-Planters.

No. 135,294, PatentedJan.28,1873.

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IMPROVEMENT IN HAND-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,294, dated January 28, 1873'.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIDNEY S. STULTs, of

. Cedar Bluffs, in the county of Saunders and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and Improved Corn-Planter, of which the following is a specification:

The invention relates to improvement in the class of walking corn-planters; and consists in the means for opening the jaws, arranged as hereinafter described. I

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a cornplanter such as I propose to make, and Fig. 2 is asectional elevation taken on the line was of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate sponding parts.

A is a staff with a handle at the top for carrying in the hand of the operator walking along the groundsoinewhat in the manner of carrying a cane. B is the grain-box, in the bottom of which is a grooved piece, F, in

which a curved dropping slide, 0, with a pocket, D, for receiving the seed, works to draw it out of the grain-box under the brush J into the tube I, through which it falls to the space between the points A B, which make the hole in the ground by the staff A being forced down, and they are opened by swinging the upper end of the staff forward so that the foot Gr strikes the ground to arrest the forward movement of the lever J, which carries the point B 5 also has the dropper-slide 0 connected to it; and is pivoted to point A at K,

so as to be swung back thereby for opening the jaws to drop the seed, and moving the dropper-slide O backward in block F for a new supply of grain to be drawn forward into the tube I, and dropped down to the jaws when the slide comes forward again. The spring H throws the lever J and slide 0 forward and closes the jaws when the planter is raised out of the ground after one operation to be swung forward for the next. The size of the pocket D is varied by an adjusting-slide, L, and a binding-screw, M, with which there is an adjustable stop-piece, N, to arrest the spring H, when the jaws close, so as to prevent them from being pressed together too hard by the spring and lever.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination of the foot G, lever J, spring H, and staff A, with the jaws A B pivoted together at K, as shown and described.

SIDNEY S. STULTS.

Vitnessesi W. J. HARMON, (J. M. WHITNEY. 

